Top 1200 Brooklyn Bridge Quotes & Sayings - Page 6

Up there we see everything, Oakland to the left, El Cerrito and Richmond to the right, Marin forward, over the Bay, Berkeley below, all red rooftops and trees of cauliflower and columbine, shaped like rockets and explosions, all those people below us, with humbler views; we see the Bay Bridge, clunkety, the Richmond Bridge, straight, low, the Golden Gate, red toothpicks and string, the blue between, the blue above, the gleaming white Land of the Lost/Superman's North Pole Getaway magic crystals that are San Francisco.

I'm from Brooklyn. I grew up very poor- seven people, four rooms. My dad had no education.

I went to Brooklyn College as an education major. It was a big deal in the family, but really, I was living for Mom and Dad.

My life! That's a long story, too. I was born in Brooklyn, New York, like half of the world, I think.

I can't work in Brooklyn. Unless I'm completely locked away in a studio, there's just too much distraction and stimulation.

I was born in Brooklyn, delivered by a Chinese doctor on a table in a boarding house on Sept. 23, 1920.

When I was trekking across Brooklyn, looking for MC battles - and there were plenty of them - I never dreamed I'd be at this podium.

I like going after work back to Brooklyn because it is so much more relaxed and chill.

I grew up in East Flatbush in Brooklyn which was an intense neighbourhood filled with different West Indian cultures.

It's much easier to hire really great people like that in New York and in Brooklyn in particular, than it is in Washington.

A guru is not a crutch, he is a bridge.

I have a very resilient Brooklyn personality that allows me to stay thick-skinned and focused on my mission and goals.

For years, I have been harboring memories of my first major league game at a place named Ebbets Field in Brooklyn.

We'll jump off that bridge when we come to it.

If you understood a business perfectly and the future of the business, you would need very little in the way of a margin of safety. So, the more vulnerable the business is, assuming you still want to invest in it, the larger margin of safety you'd need. If you're driving a truck across a bridge that says it holds 10,000 pounds and you've got a 9,800 pound vehicle, if the bridge is 6 inches above the crevice it covers, you may feel okay, but if it's over the Grand Canyon, you may feel you want a little larger margin of safety.

When I was fifteen, I spent three weeks driving all over Brooklyn with a guy who was following his girlfriend.

I like to walk around. And I have a really big garden in Brooklyn. Growing tomatoes in my backyard feels very rewarding.

I know there's Brooklyn and all the boroughs, but Manhattan specifically is so condensed that the energy is very vibrant. Everywhere you look there is something happening.

Praise the bridge that carried you over.

I am from Brooklyn, NY, so we could not have many pets, but I always had at least two dogs.

I'm a person who has, to a certain extent, redefined where I should be. I started off in Brooklyn and Queens and I wasn't supposed to come to Manhattan.

But which is the stone that supports the bridge?

I went to an amazing school in Brooklyn called St. Anne's that's a really kind of creative hot bed.

A lot of people who are passionate about digital or publishing, they either want to be in New York or Brooklyn.

I owe my own fluency with language to Brooklyn. Everyone talked about everything, from the Dodgers to the revolution.

I bought my Grasshoppers tennis shoes at a flea market in Brooklyn. They are so comfortable to lounge around in on tour.

It's impressive, just driving around Brooklyn, seeing the fans wearing the logo. They've really embraced us.

I will always be dedicated to the talented men and women at our headquarters in Brooklyn and across the country.

I grew up in the projects in Brooklyn, and I consider myself lucky and blessed to be where I am - just working.

And then what?" "I'll burn that bridge when I cross it.

I think in Brooklyn they respect the hustle and playing the right way and because of that, fans come out and support that.

I go to Franny's in Brooklyn a lot. It's just a casual Italian place, but I could eat there every day.

A lot of my friends who grew up in Manhattan have a strange phobia about Brooklyn. It's big and scary and they get lost.

Used to ride with him to Brooklyn, Lewis and Halsey, co chocolate thai, vernon style and burn it down

I was raised in Brooklyn and in Baltimore. My father was a bookkeeper. When I was 36 years old, my mother told me I was adopted.

Bridge is the king of all card games.

Reading is a bridge to thought.

I'll never burn a bridge.

I want to be the bridge to the next generation.

I didn't know how many independent bookstores had amazing wine lists until I toured with 'Another Brooklyn.'

What is great in man is that he is a bridge and not a goal.

Natural gas is not a bridge - it's a gangplank.

Don't cross the bridge til you come to it.

I read Betty Smith's "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn," all of Shirley Jackson's books, which I loved.

After a subsequent interview at Brooklyn Poly, I was hired, and life as a fully independent researcher began.

Being from Staten Island and Brooklyn, I'm used to eating pasta and meatballs every single day.

I always felt most at home on a basketball court, dating all the way back to when I was growing up in Brooklyn.

Even though I grew up as a Sephardic Jew in Brooklyn where we ate Syrian food and went to temple, it was still America.

Love is the bridge between you and everything.

I'm a Brooklyn guy onstage, and I try to really feed my fans with the kind of material they expect from me.

I'll bridge these hills with graceful arches

Why should these Palestinians, who have lived in Jerusalem for hundreds of years, be evicted from their homes so that Jews from Brooklyn can live in them?

Farrell's Bar in Brooklyn had urinals so large they looked like shower stalls for Toulouse-Lautrec.

And it's a little - very humbling to think that running for president of the United States is - for a kid from Brooklyn, it's quite a step.

Gratitude builds a bridge to abundance.

I’m a Brooklyn guy onstage, and I try to really feed my fans with the kind of material they expect from me.

I saw all those great '70s films when I was 9, and no one in my Brooklyn neighborhood cared if a kid watched an R movie.

Bridge is a game for the undivided intellect.

A lot of people in barber shops all over Brooklyn talk about Paulie Malignaggi v. Zab Judah.

Literacy is a bridge from misery to hope.